Archive: 05/2002
2002-05-01
- Is the US torturing Abu Zubaida?
- Australian court ruling against Big Tobacco
- Director of congressional probe into September 11 terror attacks resigns
- Britain: Cash for access scandal dogs Blair’s Middle East envoy
- Socialist coalition prepares Hungary for entry into European Union following election
- McCabe v. British American Tobacco Australia Services Ltd: A protracted conspiracy exposed
2002-05-02
- US provides military assistance to Nepal to crush Maoist guerrillas
- The war in Afghanistan, world politics and the perspective for socialism
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Milosevic and Sharon: when is a war criminal not a war criminal?
- May Day marchers in Paris speak on the French elections
- German Chancellor Schröder booed at May Day rally in Leipzig
- May Day in France: 1.5 million march against neo-fascist Le Pen
- An exchange on the politics of the April 20 anti-war protest in Washington
- Britain: Blair government lurches to the right in wake of French presidential elections
- US authorities arrest Islamic charity leader on perjury charges
2002-05-03
- The AFL-CIO’s role in the Venezuelan coup
- French Socialist Party attempts to pick up the pieces
- Australian government hands over millions more dollars to Mitsubishi
- UN pronounces on Jenin: Forget about it
- An exchange of letters on the April 20 march in Washington
- Letters on the crisis in France
- Factional conflict as Beijing prepares for major leadership change
2002-05-04
- US growth figures don’t square with business perceptions
- Britain: Labour cooks the books on child poverty
- Palestinian activist arrested in New York City
- The left and the French presidential election: An exchange of letters on the politics of Lutte Ouvrière
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sharp rise in US jobless rate
- Britain: local government elections reveal political disaffection and stagnation
- Letters to the WSWS
2002-05-06
- Chirac wins French presidency with 82 percent of the vote
- Police attack May Day protests in Australia
- Opportunism in practice: the response of French left groups to the presidential election
- Deep cracks in India’s ruling coalition revealed in debate over Gujarat violence
- Letters on the school shooting in Erfurt, Germany
2002-05-07
- Pakistan’s sham referendum endorses Musharraf as president
- Nigerian plane crashes in city suburb
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US repudiates International Criminal Court
- France: Chirac appoints "free market" conservative as interim prime minister
- US Congress backs Israeli assault on Palestinians
- Pro-Palestinian student group suspended following University of California-Berkeley protest
- Victimised Australian professor reinstated but placed on "leave"
2002-05-08
- The Milosevic trial: More questions raised over Racak
- Report exposes role of government in communal violence in India
- More evidence of warnings to Washington of September 11 attacks
- Letters to the WSWS
- May Day in China: government glorifies the rich, workers protest inequality
- Ferry disaster in Bangladesh claims 300 lives
2002-05-09
- Musharaff gives go-ahead for US military operations in Pakistan
- Australian government defends its brutal treatment of refugees
- Why the low-key White House, media response to pipe-bomb terrorism?
- New York Times op-ed piece: another "nothing to hide" apologia for Israeli war crimes
- The Netherlands: social democrats eulogize murdered neo-fascist Pim Fortuyn
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Woody Allen’s latest
2002-05-10
- Complacent and emotionally remote
- An interview with Lutte Ouvrière leader Arlette Laguiller, and comment by Peter Schwarz
- With US backing, Israel prepares new military assault on Palestinians
- Human Rights Watch report into Jenin accuses Israel of war crimes
- Enron defrauded California out of billions during energy crisis
- Is the US planning a war against Cuba?
- Burmese junta releases Suu Kyi amid fears of political unrest
2002-05-11
2002-05-13
2002-05-14
- Homenaje a Cataluña, de George Orwell: el estalinismo y la Revolución Española
- La Crisis Económica Mundial 1991-2001
- Coroner blames work stress for New Zealand bank worker’s suicide
- Australia: SEP meetings discuss Afghanistan war and the perspective for socialism
- Interview with a member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire of France, and comment by David Walsh
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Defying growing state repression, 100,000 Israelis rally against war
- "The most coherent political analysis available"
- Letters on the French elections
2002-05-15
- Australia: Maritime union promotes nationalism in CSL Yarra dispute
- Execution assembly line continues to roll in US
- Carter comment exposes Bush administration’s "big lie" against Cuba
- Steel and the Virgin Mary
- Changed conditions and some of the same problems
- US attorney general invokes God in "war on terrorism"
- Anthrax attacks: FBI cover-up and New York Times whitewash
- Afghanistan’s loya jirga: a cynical exercise in neo-colonialism
2002-05-16
- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the dead-end of Zionism
- On the labor party question in the US
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Paris club decision keeps Indonesian economy temporarily afloat
- The Crusader affair: A military-corporate oligarchy out of control
- Australian budget targets social welfare to pay for war
2002-05-17
- The political lessons of the French presidential elections
- May Department Stores lays off 1,800 in Pennsylvania and Oregon
- Number of US workers on jobless benefits hits 19-year high
- Chilean court reenacts stadium execution of American journalist
- French President Chirac appoints new government with right-wing agenda
- Chinese leaders seek allies against US encirclement
- Films of Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, and a number of documentaries
2002-05-18
- East Timor’s "independence": illusion and reality
- Right-wing parties unseat social democrats in Dutch elections
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- What the Likud vote reveals about Israel’s real intentions
- Letters on "US attorney general invokes God in 'war on terrorism'"
- Cover-up and conspiracy: The Bush administration and September 11
- Australia: Howard government bans French movie Baise-moi
- Famine spreads across southern Africa
2002-05-20
2002-05-21
- US under fire over steel and farm policies
- German metalworkers strike brought to an end
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- India and Pakistan move to the brink of war
- German government clamps down on opposition prior to Bush visit
- Bush vows tighter blockade, Castro pushes for rapprochement with US
- Britain: Asbestos ruling opens way for compensation claims
2002-05-22
- Why is the New York Times defending Bush’s September 11 cover-up?
- The war in Afghanistan, world politics and the perspective for socialism
- Heat and poverty kill over 700 people in India
- Letters on the social crisis in America
- Letters to the WSWS
- Discussions on the Argentine crisis
- New arms treaty paves way for US military buildup
- Britain: Mother faces prison for failing to send daughters to school
2002-05-23
- An uneasy cease fire in Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan navy kills two fishermen
- The war in Afghanistan, world politics and the perspective for socialism
- Pro-US military strongman elected president in Mali
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Israel: Sharon pushes through austerity budget
- Tens of thousands march against Bush in Berlin
2002-05-24
- Rewards, disappointments and surprises
- Britain: Potters Bar derailment highlights deterioration in rail safety
- The war in Afghanistan, world politics and the perspective for socialism
- India and Pakistan back off from war—temporarily
- New York’s ex-mayor Giuliani leaves a legacy of corruption and racism
- Michigan conference calls for defense of Arab, Asian immigrants
- Government by provocation: Bush administration escalates terror warnings
2002-05-25
- Texas to execute three for crimes committed as juveniles
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Thousands die each year in US because they lack health insurance
- Britain: Labour government whips up anti-immigrant sentiment
- Hershey Chocolate workers strike in Pennsylvania
- Colombian vote sets stage for US military escalation
- Workers’ protests continue in northeast China
- Report details Israeli seizure of West Bank land
- Australian government forced to delay "anti-terrorism" laws
2002-05-27
2002-05-28
- Britain’s favoured candidate wins Sierra Leone elections
- Widening rebellion by New Zealand teachers against government-union pay deal
- The Bush administration embraces Malaysian autocrat
- Revealing testimony by Rugova on the breakup of Yugoslavia
- Dwindling job prospects and rising education costs face US college graduates
- Bush in Berlin: illusion and reality
- More questions about whom Australian troops are killing in Afghanistan
2002-05-29
- September 11 cover-up crumbles: Who was covering for Moussaoui, and why?
- Train crash in Mozambique kills 200
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Private operator of US public schools facing financial crisis
- On Marx and Lassalle, Engels and Carlyle: an exchange of letters
- Rightist death squads hail Colombia’s new president
- US duty on Canadian lumber comes into force
2002-05-30
- Australia bullies "independent" East Timor over oil and gas
- Pasolini and other questions
- Texas executes man for crime committed at 17
- Eastern European workers to pay the cost of membership in European Union
- European Union grants temporary stay to exiled Palestinian militants
- Some questions and answers on life under socialism
- Rights of British mesothelioma victims restored
2002-05-31
- US Supreme Court reinstates death sentence against Tennessee man
- Australian prisoners in Guantanamo Bay send letters exposing their illegal detention
- The painter Jacob Lawrence
- Kenya hit by floods
- A socialist strategy to oppose war on the Indian subcontinent
- Bush administration lifts restriction on domestic spying by FBI
- Britain: right-wing union leaders maintain control by any means necessary
- Letters on the September 11 cover-up
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